Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family in this masterful, harrowing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
ISBN: 0140139397
ISBN 13: 9780140139396
Publication Date: March 01, 1991
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 563
Author: Wallace Stegner